So now what......

All started off so well she's been enjoying all the food i put in front of her and then following a bout of teething and a nasty ear infection has gone completely off her veggies & meat. Will still eat fruit and yoghurts but i can't get a vegetable near her. She's on 3 meals a day and 3 bottles at the moment. (at least that was what she was having before getting ill)

When she was ill i did give her more comfort food (rice puddings etc) but now she's better and she just wants to eat these types of things. I'm getting very very frustrated but don't want to make eating an issue for her obviously.

I'm just wondering whether i should reintroduce an 11am bottle and go back to basics i.e single veg after her bottle and just offer fruit as a pud and hold off on any yoghurts/rice puddings?

Arrrgghhhh just when i thought we'd got it cracked...please anybody got some advice/tips. btw she's happy to chew on rice cakes and has mastered toast as well but show her a carrot stick or a broccoli florett and she looks like you're about to poison her!

she might be better but still not back to her old self, iyswim. I always found it took a long time for DS to get back to his old diet after an illness, even if he looked and acted better.

I would just keep offering it at every meal and give her some more time. I vividly remember entire weeks going by when all DS ate was yogurt.

And I wouldn't withold the yogurt/fruit, she's too little to understand the connection, just keep offering. She won't be missing out on nutrition much as they only eat tiny amounts at this stage anyway, and if she's hungry she'll eat!

DS didn't like steamed veg at first, I did roasted veg sticks with olive oil and rosemary - a lot tastier! Just keep offering different types of veg in different sauces/ cooked differently and sooner or later she'll pick them up.